1. God hates fags. 2. God hates Jews. 3. "pray for more dead soldiers." Telling someone to pray for evil is heretical.
In a nation that actually has an established Christian state religion which the state regards as the source of its legislation and authority (what the first amendment actually prohibits), these things would be capital crimes if Margie Phelps were to refuse to repent of them before a religious tribunal.
I don't expect the sort of idiots who believe that admonitions against homosexual **conduct** are irrefutable proof that God secretly hates homosexuals to understand or agree with this. However, it should be rather obvious that since the New Testament affirms that salvation is also for the Jews and homosexual conduct is one of the countless sins that is fully covered by divine grace that these are contrary to Christian doctrines.
Obviously, some lunatic church may disagree, but then the Bible tell us to have no dealings with them.
He was going to have 6 well armed people outside the doors shooting people as they escaped. And even a small explosion would probably drive people out of the building.
And apparently his plan didn't account for the fact that even if his men could get on site with weapons of any significance, they'd be squaring off against a very large security force whose personnel are distinguishable from US Marines primarily by uniform, not weapons, training or capabilities.
As a general rule, only fundamentalists believe that religion was set in stone back in the day.
In case you didn't notice, American religious fundamentalists were the only major faction that was almost uniformly upset about Darfur and calling for action to protect the tribes. It was a religious fundamentalist who pushed the law in parliament which abolished slavery in the British Empire. In France, it was the descendants of the Huguenots who openly told the Nazis to piss off if they expected them to help them hunt down the Jews; many of them actually hid a large number of Jews at great risk to their communities while secular French communities turned over Jews so eagerly that even the German soldiers were disturbed by their level of anti-semitism.
I've heard this interpretation before, but an awful lot of Christians still cite Leviticus whenever it suits, often while eating a bacon cheeseburger.
There's a reason for that. The Council of Jerusalem settled the issue by declaring that Hebrew Christians had to continue to follow the ritual purity laws from the Old Testament, while gentile Christians were not only obligated to follow a few general obligations such as abstaining from consuming blood, idolatry and fornication.
Most Christians I know have read the Book of Acts because it is practically a continuation of the Gospel of Luke. That's why they probably look at you funny when you expect them to follow the kosher regulations. If you know the Bible well enough to mock their beliefs, it should be assume that you would have enough knowledge to know about the Council of Jerusalem which was the only church council actually convened by the apostles.
In the information technology category, POGO found that the federal government is paying contractors to provide computer engineers an average of $268,653 per year. That's nearly twice the average $136,456 it pays its own computer engineers and nearly twice the average private sector salary of $131,415.
$268k is the combined invoice for the employee; $136k is the actual compensation of the GS14 or GS15 in question. Government contractor employees, unlike government employees, often work unpaid overtime for the government. That $268k may actually be 2500 hours instead of the 2080 hours normal to a 40 hour work week over a year.
It sometimes still amazes me when I meet liberals who don't understand that many people who "make $1M" actually don't keep most of it even before taxes because they run sole proprietorships or partnerships. It's a testament to the fact that we need a "you must know this much to have a right to be heard" sign next to the soap box.
I'm all for giving men like Buffet and Gates precisely what they want. They want more taxes, have at it. Instead of starting the curve ramping up in the low millions, let's have it really start hitting home in the tens of millions and then go nuts when someone takes home over $100M. That way we know we aren't hitting small businesses.
Since most of the truly wealthy seem to have a left-wing streak, I as a conservative, see no reason to not give them what they want good and hard so long as we can spare small businesses.
It's already been long-established that most of the weapons that are being used by the cartels are actually real military weapons. Not "military-looking" like the AR-15 which is just another semiautomatic rifle that just "looks scary," but the sort of automatic weapons that the only efficient American channel for getting them is the US Government funneling them to Mexico where they "just so happen" to fall out of the Mexican government's hands only to reappear in some enterprising criminal's hands.
What is absolutely ridiculous about the "90% myth" with the Mexican cartels and American guns is that the best the ATF can figure out is that the most of the weapons being smuggled across the border are being sold illegally to ordinary Mexican citizens because buying and transporting weapons is nearly impossible in Mexico. The black market exists because ordinary Mexicans are getting sick to death of being caught in the crossfire between a corrupt-as-heck government that can't/won't protect them and the cartels.
Can anyone other than a white liberal living in an upper class part of town their entire life blame them?
This shows the ridiculousness of trying to go after vendors and service providers indirectly. Usually it's caused by the government not doing its job.
I'd love to play games like C&C on my XBox since I don't have a comparable Windows system. I'll be damned if I'm going to use a controller for a RTS. Why not just sell a USB splitter that is designed to bring a keyboard and mouse together as a single controller so I can play these games?
Don't post your pictures and employment info online if you're a cop and ever want to do this work. Cops know that this work is what gets them the big promotions. If they want to advance their careers, being discrete on Facebook will just be de rigeur for them.
Do you see the CIA's clandestine service going "OH NOES WE CANT USE TEH FACEBOOK?" Of course not. If and when they get sent overseas, they don't want to end up in a ditch because they moronically outed themselves on Facebook.
Take Gears of War. All together, the three games are probably 24 hours of content. It's taken about 6 years to release all three.
If they released them as 4 hour episodes for $30-$40, each with the full multiplayer experience, they could have probably done a release every year that most gamers would buy and play through without complaints.
One key recommendation by the panel is a call for transparency regarding the use of chemicals in the extraction process. Drillers say they would like to keep the exact formula of the chemicals they use secret because it represents a competitive advantage.
Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the ability to grant time-limited monopolies on technologies to advance the public good. Congress could easily pass a law granting them a monopoly for 5 years on the use of the technique if they will open it up to public scrutiny. They could even build in a grace period where the 5 years don't even begin until the US DoE has finished its inquiry and that no one is allowed to reduce to practice the ideas exposed.
As a quasi-libertarian on economics, that is an uncomfortable pill to swallow, but the fact is that the constitution provides a mechanism that would satisfy most of the major political factions which is ultimately more important than doctrinaire capitalism.
Give law-abiding Britains their gun rights back and let them use them in public when attacked by people who clearly intend to render substantial harm to life, limb or property.
Liberals were predicting that the "make my day" self-defense statutes Florida and Georgia have would result in a bloodbath because recipients of violence could not only stand their ground (by abolishing the "duty to retreat") but also lowered the threshold for using a weapon in self-defense.
Instead, a lot of criminals suddenly realized it would be open season on them.
Of course, you're well within your right to lecture these "redneck states" on how uncivilized their behavior is--even as your city is struggling with outright barbarism in its midst.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is just the tip of the iceberg for Manning. Unlike this guy, Manning has about 22 other charges against him, most of which pertain to violations of national security by someone in the military and/or holding a security clearance. The most serious one is "aiding the enemy" which that alone can get a soldier the death penalty.
The CFAA is just one of my tools they're using against Manning (assuming you are correct that it's a charge in his case). The prosecution could "quite magnanimously" drop it and Manning would still be so screwed he'd have no hope in hell of getting away with it.
That power squarely rests with oil-rich nations that hold most of the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that speculate and make markets in the oil trading game.
Wherever the market is being broken down you either find Big Government or Big Finance. Sometimes both, but we're seeing that Big Finance is as much a mortal enemy of the free market as Big Government.
So it's okay for that scumbag to threaten the lives of seniors, of poor people, of veterans, of anyone by threatening to let the nation default which means the checks wont be sent out to them? What about troops serving right now who are risking their lives so that ignorant congressman can safely speak like that? What about law enforcement who protects scumbags like him from being robbed and preyed upon?
Defaulting on the federal debt will simply mean the federal government is limited to its revenues and whatever it can print (and that will totally screw over the poor and vulnerable). We have over $2T in revenues. All that means is that the federal government will have to prioritize.
How about we start means-testing Social Security and Medicare. If Grandma has a pension, fat 401k or private assets she gets no Social Security.
So what if she "paid into the system her whole life." I have no kids and pay thousands of dollars in property taxes, mainly to support local schools. Do you see me whining, bitching and moaning about the injustice of paying for something from which I derive no personal benefit? No. It's called civic responsibility. Part of your duty as a citizen is to put the common good before yours and frankly, I'm sick of ordinary Americans adopting the same "fuck you, I'll get mine" attitude they accuse the rich of having and then acting holier than thou toward them.
It seems like the more extreme Republicans that are running things in the House don't have a political philosophy so much as they have a religion. It's hard to convince a zealot of anything.
The Republican plan would allow Obama to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4T and raise taxes provided both houses can agree to a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
If you think that's extreme, you're a kool aid drinking liberal. The Republican base is demanding no compromise on the debt ceiling, no new taxes AND a balanced budget amendment. The Republican house very well might get flushed in 2012 in favor of even more Tea Party candidates unless they succeed in actually ratifying an enforceable balanced budget amendment.
The federal budget has gone from not even $2T under Clinton to $3.5T under Obama. This trend cannot continue. It has nothing to do with taxes or tax rates. The GDP is about $13T. That means the federal government alone now consumes about 27% of our GDP. Even if your support big, active government that leaves a lot less money for those governments that are closer and more accountable to the people.
I think you need to look up the definition of Socialism....
I think you need to look up the NASDAP and No True Scotsman Fallacy. He was clearly referring to the former and you're guilty of the latter by engaging a definition of Socialism which purposefully excludes Corporatism (aka Fascism) which is a derivative of Socialism which uses a tight cooperation between private business and government to achieve collectivist goals.
The Hindu Business Line notes that Clinton was also pressed to exempt Indian techies in the States on H-1B or L1 visas from US social security taxes, an exemption that, if granted, could reportedly result in savings of at least a billion dollars for the country's software industry."
An exemption that would also cause an even more vitriolic backlash from American workers who would become even more expensive relative to Indian H1B and L1 holders because of a tax that only the Amish and a few others can avoid (for now).
They'd have a case here if American developers could legally bow out of FICA. I'd take that deal without hesitation. I know a lot of developers who'd love to step outside that system and have the money for their 401ks and FSA/HSA instead.
explain to me why we need that much overlap? i understand the different roles that each branch fills.. but there is zero reason why each of them can't use the same data center.
Really? You can't think of at least a few good reasons without asking?
1. How about the kind of disaster you'd have if an adversary, say the PRC, were to get a guided missile destroyer through our naval defenses and put a cruise missile or three right into one of those data centers? Do you really want such "efficiency" that a well-coordinated attack could bring down essentially the entire military IT capacity with only a minimal amount of firepower being used by the enemy? 2. Operational security. The day-to-day operations of each branch aren't a need-to-know for the others. The Navy has no need to be kept abreast of where the Army is moving except when joint command decisions need to be made. Compromising one data center shouldn't compromise the operations of another branch. You don't want some hacker to break into the Army's data center and find the latest flight plans for the Air Force's nuclear bombers and the Navy's ballistic missile forces. 3. The military is not a monolithic organization. Each command in each branch should have its own modest-sized data center and backup site because each command has a separate task and/or is required to be able to operate independently. "The Army" doesn't go into Iraq. Certain units were pulled together and sent in together. Each of those was a separate organization under the Army. This works well for the taxpayer because there is a single "The Army" target for a hostile actor to disable.
"My view is we should only have three major data centers across the entire U.S. government," said Kundra.
Set aside the procurement debate for a moment and let this one quote sink in. Three data centers is not enough to give each of the branches of the military its own dedicated data center for operations. There are five (technically) branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Each one of those should have at least one "major data center" except maybe the Coast Guard.
Let's face it, Kundra doesn't appear to be any better than the very people he's criticizing.
If Palm did this with BeOS back about 5-6 years ago. BeOS didn't really compete with them. It did, however, compete with their biggest contemporary competitor and one of their future competitors that they should have seen would soon be a major rival. Had Palm given Haiku developers the same deal with BeOS, it would have been as disruptive for Microsoft and Apple as if a little enemy state were to hit the US with a high altitude EMP on a weekday.
If anyone in the state legislatures or Congress wanted to do it the right way. What you'd do is set up a system with these features:
1. Each state would be allowed to set one rate for the entire state. 2. Each state would publish its rate with the IRS. 3. The IRS would provide a simple web service for looking up compliance information, including rate and mailing addresses for each state's tax office. 4. The federal government would indemnify all businesses who comply with the IRS's published information from any civil or criminal charges in the event a state failed to keep its IRS records accurate. 5. Any state fails to keep its compliance records accurate with the IRS would be barred for 90 days from compliance coverage (the federal government would effectively declare that businesses could legally commit tax evasion if they are not based in the state).
Opponents of this can't easily beat the media vibe it'll get. So the solution, I think, is to make it a felony to falsely block a site. Do it one better, make it so that no actual intent is required. If a government official even mistypes the domain name, they do a few years in prison. Absolutely not a single ounce of leniency for even the slightest human error.
When asked why being so harsh, just smile and say how important the filter is. Spin it as a way of assuring the public that the list really will be accurate and trustworthy, not a tool for anything more than the "obvious, legitimate need to block child pornography."
Because the average American cannot believe their lying eyes that China is now starting to go around the world much like the British Empire in advancing its own interests, building its power, subverting local governments and even yes colonizing (how many Americans know that China is exporting surplus population to Africa to help it acquire resources). Stupid Americans make comments about how we can't rush to judgment that Chinese might be more dangerous than other ethnic groups to hire for sensitive positions, despite the fact that it's public knowledge that their government aggressively engages in and encourages industrial espionage. They have a crowdsourcing program for intelligence (of all types) gathering, for fuck's sake.
But oh no, it's just those evil right-wing extremists and union workers who think China is a serious threat to our people and way of life. Everyone knows they're just a large asian version of Mexico.
I wish people would get their heads out of their asses and realize that punishment and pain have basically no correlation. It's that mentality which leads to our poor recidivism rate.
Most of the current research into the matter seems to indicate that the real culprit is how we handle our prisons. We throw new offenders in with hardened offenders, keep them out of society unduly long and don't work toward helping them come out of prison with a better education and job skills.
I am a believer in retributive justice. I don't like our system precisely because there is retribution, simply mindless punishment with a goal of balancing scales of justice between victim and victimizer (which is the ultimate goal of a retributive system).
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The following statements are heresies:
1. God hates fags.
2. God hates Jews.
3. "pray for more dead soldiers." Telling someone to pray for evil is heretical.
In a nation that actually has an established Christian state religion which the state regards as the source of its legislation and authority (what the first amendment actually prohibits), these things would be capital crimes if Margie Phelps were to refuse to repent of them before a religious tribunal.
I don't expect the sort of idiots who believe that admonitions against homosexual **conduct** are irrefutable proof that God secretly hates homosexuals to understand or agree with this. However, it should be rather obvious that since the New Testament affirms that salvation is also for the Jews and homosexual conduct is one of the countless sins that is fully covered by divine grace that these are contrary to Christian doctrines.
Obviously, some lunatic church may disagree, but then the Bible tell us to have no dealings with them.
And apparently his plan didn't account for the fact that even if his men could get on site with weapons of any significance, they'd be squaring off against a very large security force whose personnel are distinguishable from US Marines primarily by uniform, not weapons, training or capabilities.
In case you didn't notice, American religious fundamentalists were the only major faction that was almost uniformly upset about Darfur and calling for action to protect the tribes. It was a religious fundamentalist who pushed the law in parliament which abolished slavery in the British Empire. In France, it was the descendants of the Huguenots who openly told the Nazis to piss off if they expected them to help them hunt down the Jews; many of them actually hid a large number of Jews at great risk to their communities while secular French communities turned over Jews so eagerly that even the German soldiers were disturbed by their level of anti-semitism.
There's a reason for that. The Council of Jerusalem settled the issue by declaring that Hebrew Christians had to continue to follow the ritual purity laws from the Old Testament, while gentile Christians were not only obligated to follow a few general obligations such as abstaining from consuming blood, idolatry and fornication.
Most Christians I know have read the Book of Acts because it is practically a continuation of the Gospel of Luke. That's why they probably look at you funny when you expect them to follow the kosher regulations. If you know the Bible well enough to mock their beliefs, it should be assume that you would have enough knowledge to know about the Council of Jerusalem which was the only church council actually convened by the apostles.
$268k is the combined invoice for the employee; $136k is the actual compensation of the GS14 or GS15 in question. Government contractor employees, unlike government employees, often work unpaid overtime for the government. That $268k may actually be 2500 hours instead of the 2080 hours normal to a 40 hour work week over a year.
It sometimes still amazes me when I meet liberals who don't understand that many people who "make $1M" actually don't keep most of it even before taxes because they run sole proprietorships or partnerships. It's a testament to the fact that we need a "you must know this much to have a right to be heard" sign next to the soap box.
I'm all for giving men like Buffet and Gates precisely what they want. They want more taxes, have at it. Instead of starting the curve ramping up in the low millions, let's have it really start hitting home in the tens of millions and then go nuts when someone takes home over $100M. That way we know we aren't hitting small businesses.
Since most of the truly wealthy seem to have a left-wing streak, I as a conservative, see no reason to not give them what they want good and hard so long as we can spare small businesses.
It's already been long-established that most of the weapons that are being used by the cartels are actually real military weapons. Not "military-looking" like the AR-15 which is just another semiautomatic rifle that just "looks scary," but the sort of automatic weapons that the only efficient American channel for getting them is the US Government funneling them to Mexico where they "just so happen" to fall out of the Mexican government's hands only to reappear in some enterprising criminal's hands.
What is absolutely ridiculous about the "90% myth" with the Mexican cartels and American guns is that the best the ATF can figure out is that the most of the weapons being smuggled across the border are being sold illegally to ordinary Mexican citizens because buying and transporting weapons is nearly impossible in Mexico. The black market exists because ordinary Mexicans are getting sick to death of being caught in the crossfire between a corrupt-as-heck government that can't/won't protect them and the cartels.
Can anyone other than a white liberal living in an upper class part of town their entire life blame them?
This shows the ridiculousness of trying to go after vendors and service providers indirectly. Usually it's caused by the government not doing its job.
I'd love to play games like C&C on my XBox since I don't have a comparable Windows system. I'll be damned if I'm going to use a controller for a RTS. Why not just sell a USB splitter that is designed to bring a keyboard and mouse together as a single controller so I can play these games?
Don't post your pictures and employment info online if you're a cop and ever want to do this work. Cops know that this work is what gets them the big promotions. If they want to advance their careers, being discrete on Facebook will just be de rigeur for them.
Do you see the CIA's clandestine service going "OH NOES WE CANT USE TEH FACEBOOK?" Of course not. If and when they get sent overseas, they don't want to end up in a ditch because they moronically outed themselves on Facebook.
Take Gears of War. All together, the three games are probably 24 hours of content. It's taken about 6 years to release all three.
If they released them as 4 hour episodes for $30-$40, each with the full multiplayer experience, they could have probably done a release every year that most gamers would buy and play through without complaints.
Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the ability to grant time-limited monopolies on technologies to advance the public good. Congress could easily pass a law granting them a monopoly for 5 years on the use of the technique if they will open it up to public scrutiny. They could even build in a grace period where the 5 years don't even begin until the US DoE has finished its inquiry and that no one is allowed to reduce to practice the ideas exposed.
As a quasi-libertarian on economics, that is an uncomfortable pill to swallow, but the fact is that the constitution provides a mechanism that would satisfy most of the major political factions which is ultimately more important than doctrinaire capitalism.
Give law-abiding Britains their gun rights back and let them use them in public when attacked by people who clearly intend to render substantial harm to life, limb or property.
Liberals were predicting that the "make my day" self-defense statutes Florida and Georgia have would result in a bloodbath because recipients of violence could not only stand their ground (by abolishing the "duty to retreat") but also lowered the threshold for using a weapon in self-defense.
Instead, a lot of criminals suddenly realized it would be open season on them.
Of course, you're well within your right to lecture these "redneck states" on how uncivilized their behavior is--even as your city is struggling with outright barbarism in its midst.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is just the tip of the iceberg for Manning. Unlike this guy, Manning has about 22 other charges against him, most of which pertain to violations of national security by someone in the military and/or holding a security clearance. The most serious one is "aiding the enemy" which that alone can get a soldier the death penalty.
The CFAA is just one of my tools they're using against Manning (assuming you are correct that it's a charge in his case). The prosecution could "quite magnanimously" drop it and Manning would still be so screwed he'd have no hope in hell of getting away with it.
Wherever the market is being broken down you either find Big Government or Big Finance. Sometimes both, but we're seeing that Big Finance is as much a mortal enemy of the free market as Big Government.
Defaulting on the federal debt will simply mean the federal government is limited to its revenues and whatever it can print (and that will totally screw over the poor and vulnerable). We have over $2T in revenues. All that means is that the federal government will have to prioritize.
How about we start means-testing Social Security and Medicare. If Grandma has a pension, fat 401k or private assets she gets no Social Security.
So what if she "paid into the system her whole life." I have no kids and pay thousands of dollars in property taxes, mainly to support local schools. Do you see me whining, bitching and moaning about the injustice of paying for something from which I derive no personal benefit? No. It's called civic responsibility. Part of your duty as a citizen is to put the common good before yours and frankly, I'm sick of ordinary Americans adopting the same "fuck you, I'll get mine" attitude they accuse the rich of having and then acting holier than thou toward them.
The Republican plan would allow Obama to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4T and raise taxes provided both houses can agree to a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
If you think that's extreme, you're a kool aid drinking liberal. The Republican base is demanding no compromise on the debt ceiling, no new taxes AND a balanced budget amendment. The Republican house very well might get flushed in 2012 in favor of even more Tea Party candidates unless they succeed in actually ratifying an enforceable balanced budget amendment.
The federal budget has gone from not even $2T under Clinton to $3.5T under Obama. This trend cannot continue. It has nothing to do with taxes or tax rates. The GDP is about $13T. That means the federal government alone now consumes about 27% of our GDP. Even if your support big, active government that leaves a lot less money for those governments that are closer and more accountable to the people.
I think you need to look up the NASDAP and No True Scotsman Fallacy. He was clearly referring to the former and you're guilty of the latter by engaging a definition of Socialism which purposefully excludes Corporatism (aka Fascism) which is a derivative of Socialism which uses a tight cooperation between private business and government to achieve collectivist goals.
An exemption that would also cause an even more vitriolic backlash from American workers who would become even more expensive relative to Indian H1B and L1 holders because of a tax that only the Amish and a few others can avoid (for now).
They'd have a case here if American developers could legally bow out of FICA. I'd take that deal without hesitation. I know a lot of developers who'd love to step outside that system and have the money for their 401ks and FSA/HSA instead.
Really? You can't think of at least a few good reasons without asking?
1. How about the kind of disaster you'd have if an adversary, say the PRC, were to get a guided missile destroyer through our naval defenses and put a cruise missile or three right into one of those data centers? Do you really want such "efficiency" that a well-coordinated attack could bring down essentially the entire military IT capacity with only a minimal amount of firepower being used by the enemy?
2. Operational security. The day-to-day operations of each branch aren't a need-to-know for the others. The Navy has no need to be kept abreast of where the Army is moving except when joint command decisions need to be made. Compromising one data center shouldn't compromise the operations of another branch. You don't want some hacker to break into the Army's data center and find the latest flight plans for the Air Force's nuclear bombers and the Navy's ballistic missile forces.
3. The military is not a monolithic organization. Each command in each branch should have its own modest-sized data center and backup site because each command has a separate task and/or is required to be able to operate independently. "The Army" doesn't go into Iraq. Certain units were pulled together and sent in together. Each of those was a separate organization under the Army. This works well for the taxpayer because there is a single "The Army" target for a hostile actor to disable.
Set aside the procurement debate for a moment and let this one quote sink in. Three data centers is not enough to give each of the branches of the military its own dedicated data center for operations. There are five (technically) branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Each one of those should have at least one "major data center" except maybe the Coast Guard.
Let's face it, Kundra doesn't appear to be any better than the very people he's criticizing.
If Palm did this with BeOS back about 5-6 years ago. BeOS didn't really compete with them. It did, however, compete with their biggest contemporary competitor and one of their future competitors that they should have seen would soon be a major rival. Had Palm given Haiku developers the same deal with BeOS, it would have been as disruptive for Microsoft and Apple as if a little enemy state were to hit the US with a high altitude EMP on a weekday.
If anyone in the state legislatures or Congress wanted to do it the right way. What you'd do is set up a system with these features:
1. Each state would be allowed to set one rate for the entire state.
2. Each state would publish its rate with the IRS.
3. The IRS would provide a simple web service for looking up compliance information, including rate and mailing addresses for each state's tax office.
4. The federal government would indemnify all businesses who comply with the IRS's published information from any civil or criminal charges in the event a state failed to keep its IRS records accurate.
5. Any state fails to keep its compliance records accurate with the IRS would be barred for 90 days from compliance coverage (the federal government would effectively declare that businesses could legally commit tax evasion if they are not based in the state).
Opponents of this can't easily beat the media vibe it'll get. So the solution, I think, is to make it a felony to falsely block a site. Do it one better, make it so that no actual intent is required. If a government official even mistypes the domain name, they do a few years in prison. Absolutely not a single ounce of leniency for even the slightest human error.
When asked why being so harsh, just smile and say how important the filter is. Spin it as a way of assuring the public that the list really will be accurate and trustworthy, not a tool for anything more than the "obvious, legitimate need to block child pornography."
Because the average American cannot believe their lying eyes that China is now starting to go around the world much like the British Empire in advancing its own interests, building its power, subverting local governments and even yes colonizing (how many Americans know that China is exporting surplus population to Africa to help it acquire resources). Stupid Americans make comments about how we can't rush to judgment that Chinese might be more dangerous than other ethnic groups to hire for sensitive positions, despite the fact that it's public knowledge that their government aggressively engages in and encourages industrial espionage. They have a crowdsourcing program for intelligence (of all types) gathering, for fuck's sake.
But oh no, it's just those evil right-wing extremists and union workers who think China is a serious threat to our people and way of life. Everyone knows they're just a large asian version of Mexico.
Most of the current research into the matter seems to indicate that the real culprit is how we handle our prisons. We throw new offenders in with hardened offenders, keep them out of society unduly long and don't work toward helping them come out of prison with a better education and job skills.
I am a believer in retributive justice. I don't like our system precisely because there is retribution, simply mindless punishment with a goal of balancing scales of justice between victim and victimizer (which is the ultimate goal of a retributive system).